Audiolab 9000N - Audio Streamer - ASK FOR AVAILABILITY

The Audiolab 9000 Series, which debuted in early 2022, exemplifies Audiolab's reputation for providing class-leading amplifiers and, more recently, CD playback. After venturing into entry-level streaming with the award-winning 6000N Play and, more recently, the 7000N Play, the high-end 9000N has been eagerly awaited!

The 9000N responds to the 9000 Series and its natural progression towards a premium hi-fi solution, while also addressing overwhelming customer demand for a solidly built and impeccably finished streaming component.

Flexible and capable

The 9000N's form factor reflects the crisp elegance of the 9000A and its matching CDT. Featuring rotary controls and a lack of buttons (except the power switch), the 9000N also features the same 4.3-inch color screen as the rest of the series: the perfect showcase for your digital music files... including full-color album art!

The screen displays a variety of information in a more visually appealing way than most other streaming devices, many of which have traditionally relied on the accompanying app for operational feedback and control and the user interface. The 9000N's display offers comprehensive menu controls, a variety of options and user settings, including multilingual selection and general display options.

Even more impressive, the 9000N's display features detailed format data, playback information, and, as mentioned above, a full-color album art display. The album art is visible on the default playback screen, but can also be expanded for a playback screen with an emphasis on the album art. The display can also be set to display a VU meter in either "analog" or "digital" format, showing real-time decibel levels for the left and right channels—a satisfying graphical representation of the music as it plays. For a more minimalist option, the display can be dimmed or turned off entirely, depending on the user's preference.

Streaming like a dream

Proudly developed to combine an incredibly capable and equally stable streaming platform with audiolab's digital know-how, world-class DAC implementation and signal flow, and the intuitive overall user interface of the 9000 Series, for the ultimate streaming solution.

The audiolab 9000N app gives you instant access to Qobuz and Tidal, with full access to high-resolution and MQA content, as well as Spotify, TuneIn Internet radio and UPnP music server systems and digital audio files stored on USB HDD devices.

The app offers intelligent search capabilities and full access, control, and even the creation of user-defined playlists, folders, and album grouping functions. File information, track details, and app-in-app search, selection, and compilation functions are easily accessible. Qobuz and Tidal users will be pleased to know that, unlike other apps and platforms, high-resolution and Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) tracks can be easily identified with icons within the app itself, eliminating the need to switch between the service and the device's apps to find such content.

Unlike similar technologies from other manufacturers, the 9000N offers wireless playback via Wi-Fi, not just a wired/Ethernet connection, although that's sometimes preferable. This, along with full album art and the integration of the ESS9038Pro DAC chipset, represents several advanced features the 9000N boasts.

It's not limited to the Audiolab 9000N app, however; the 9000N also offers playback via Airplay II, as well as Tidal Connect and Spotify Connect for those who prefer the streaming service's proprietary app.

And to add to its impressive list of digital audio platform compatibility, the 9000N is Roon Ready. Roon Ready devices are network players with Roon streaming technology built-in, connected via your Ethernet or WiFi network. These devices simplify bit-perfect high-resolution audio because they require no setup, give you access to the highest audio quality, and provide stable and reliable playback.

Digital circuit

The hardware is based on a Quad Arm® Cortex®-A53 MCU with 1.8 GHz per core. This powerful "brain" behind the system ensures smooth and stable operation and additional benefits such as album art caching for faster loading of attached artwork, thus improving the user experience and visual aesthetic.

Since the highly acclaimed M-DAC was launched over a decade ago, Audiolab has become renowned for the performance of its DAC circuitry. The 9000N incorporates the ES9038PRO, an eight-channel DAC chip that represents the pinnacle of ESS Technology's current Sabre range. This is complemented by proprietary circuitry to take full advantage of the chip's HyperStream II architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator technology for unprecedented dynamic range and ultra-low distortion.

No company knows how to make the most of Sabre DAC technology more than Audiolab, having worked with it for years across several generations of products.